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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Treasure Chest Thursday – Why did she save this? Will ask no one in my family...

At a conference I attended, I
received a registration code from TheHeirloomRegistry.com.I think it is a brilliant concept to really
pass on the stories behind the items not just the items themselves.Since my children, grandchildren, and great,
great, great grandchildren will not be inheriting anything of great monetary
value from me, I can at least make sure that the things they do receive they
know what it is and what it means.

For instance, this music trinket has
been on my desk since January of 1985:

I rarely wind it and hardly ever
dust it, but I look at it every day.If
something were to happen to me, no one would know why in the world I even have
this or why it’s important. So today, I put this sticker on the
bottom of it:

Then I logged into www.theheirloomregistry.com and entered
all the pertinent information, wrote a story about the bears, and uploaded a
picture of it.Someday, someone will
find this sticker and log onto the site.They will type in the ID number and learn that:

"This music box was given to [Debbie] for her graduation from [high school] in 1985.Debbie's parents
gave her a graduation party at her early graduation in January.Her grandfather, Pierre William Conner, gave
it to her as a joke (with a check).It
has been on her desk ever since.It
plays the song, “Oh Playmate.”

The Heirloom Registry site has
Registration Number stickers for sale at a very reasonable price.The standard stickers can be bought in a 5,
10 or 25 pack and will solve the problem of trying to keep the heirloom with
the story behind it.